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Just in time to turn out Bush Alaska in large numbers to vote for Mark Begich and Byron Mallott, the Obama regime’s Department of the Interior is considering seizing parcels of tribal land across Alaska, putting it into federal trust, and turning those lands and residents into Indian Country – essentially reservations.

With great fanfare, the Obama regime released their third National Climate Assessment; this one comes in at a whopping 170 meg PDF and over 840 pages long. It is a faith-based work of science fiction that will be used to justify an endless series of large and small intrusions into our daily lives, pocketbooks, jobs and liberty for the next three years.

Senator David Vitter (R, LA) introduced S.2156, the Regulatory Fairness act of 2014 in congress last month. The legislation is an attempt to keep the EPA from preemptively or retroactively vetoing a permit under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. Lisa is supporting the legislation. Mark claims not to know about it.

The EPA assessment of the impact of the proposed Pebble mine in 2011 claimed to address local concern about the project, which the EPA simply couldn’t ignore. As it turns out, that was all a big lie. The results were pre-ordained and anti-mining groups worked closely with the EPA well before the assessment process was announced.

The proposed Obama budget continues its assault on military members and retirees started a year ago during the Sequester, when for the first time in memory they targeted users and employees of the military commissary system for their special brand of loving care.

It turns out that the science behind listing the Polar bear as threatened in 2008 was fraudulent. The models did not consider that the bears are not territorial, traveling thousands of miles in search of food. That simple fact invalidates the science behind the listing, and now the people who did the work publicly admit it.

The latest series of pro-Begich ads both paid for by his campaign and supportive PACs are blasting away at the Koch Brothers for closing the Flint Hills Refinery (topping plant). In the rough and tumble world of politics, I suppose this is reasonable, but you sure would think that Begich would hitch his wagon to a better topic.

The most important question on the Anchorage Education Association survey was: whether each candidate supports AO37. The three candidates for South Anchorage have very different answers to this . And their responses are reflected by the donors recorded in their respective APOC reports.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory exists to warn commercial aviation of volcanic ash clouds encountered in flight. FAA funding of it was cut in the anti-earmark wars of 2008. What has been done to restore this basic public safety function?

The left has suggested that we kill the electoral college for electing our President. A few states have started a compact to ignore the election results in their state if the national popular vote favors another candidate. Either change would encourage fraud in presidential elections. I offer an amendment that strengthens the electoral vote and discourages fraud.

This article proposes a new class of United States resident called Prospective Citizen for those who qualify for citizenship, but have not yet chosen to assume the responsibilities of a citizen. Adds some meaning to the phrase “consent of the governed” and more precisely defines who is a citizen.

As of this writing, it does not appear that Senator Mike Dunleavey’s SJR9 has sufficient votes in either House of the Legislature to make it to the ballot this year. This means that the educrat blob has won the current round. It will not be the last one.

People send me stuff. I got a note from a correspondent a couple days ago who sent along a photo of a sales slip for a fishing pole from Cabella’s. The sales slip had a $2 tax on a $20 fishing pole. Cabella’s was wrong blaming it on ObamaCare. They were correct in pointing out the existence of the tax. However they were a mere 60 years late complaining about it.

Latest attack ad out of the democrats PAC is a slime job attacking DNR Dan Sullivan for closure of Flint Hills and for being a carpetbagger. What has born and bred Alaskan Mark Begich done about Alaskan jobs recently?

The 20th century saw a significant degradation in an individual’s right to his property under both outright condemnation and under regulation. The Supreme Court has failed to stop this gradual destruction of our most fundamental right, although in recent decades the seem to be making an attempt to reduce the severity of this form of governmental theft.

The feds forcast a mild, warm winter for the Lower 48 states. We got one of the harshest and coldest in decades. If they can't predict 3 months in advance, why believe them on predictions 50 years out?

In committee, Mark Begich votes against allowing firearms in Post Office buildings then turns right around and votes to allow them in USPS parking lots, via which he wraps himself in the flag, and claims to be a great supporter of the Second Amendment. If so, why are Post Offices still a free fire zone for bad guys?

Senators Kevin Meyer and Peter Micciche propose allowing local governments to ban cell phone use in school zones. They use the identical and fraudulent logic that led to photo radar here in Anchorage nearly 20 years ago. They propose to solve a non-existent problem.